Black Pre-Tenure Faculty Bodies Under Scrutiny: Exploring the Experiences of Critical and Inclusive Pedagogues

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: Racial Scrutiny of Black Bodies in the Academy

Abstract

This collaborative autoethnographic study uses embodied text as frame to explore the experiences of Black pre-tenure faculty who are critical and inclusive pedagogues (CIPs). Study findings suggests that the text that Black pre-tenure faculty who are critical-inclusive pedagogues embody permits their bodies to be read and consumed by students in ways that invalidate their humanity. By examining how Black pre-tenure bodies are scrutinized, this research aims to assist higher education institutions retain and support the faculty whose expertise they rely upon to create transformative, equitable and identity-affirming learning learning environments.

Authors

• Chayla Haynes Davison, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Leonard Donovan Taylor, Mississippi State University

• Jasmine Marie Haywood, Indiana University - IUPUI

• Steve D. Mobley, Jr., The University of Alabama